On 16 Jul 99, at 20:58, Scott Moser wrote:
>      John Burgess had a good idea to with the use of a drone frame.
> Allowing the bees to construct drone comb below a starter strip is a good
> method for collecting drone larvae.

I'm all for drone trapping which is why we stock drone foundation.
Just one small fly in the ointment. You'll have a job persuading a
young hive with a young queen to make an excess of drone cells,
their natural way is first make worker, then later break them down
into drone.
        We make a number of drone mothers in a season, hives who's job it is
to make nothing but drones. The only good way that works
consistently, a sheet of drone foundation in an older hive,
transferred into a younger hive when it's fully drawn.




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